#5 Bushel Brew

This was brewed on 1/21/09. It was recipe off the Mr Beer website. It was also Bonesaw's first cider.

Recipe
1 Mr Beer Cider
1 Pale UME
1/2 Cup Honey
1 oz Argentine Cascade Hops
Munton's Yeast

Brought water to a boil and added honey. Removed from the heat and added the UME, Cider, and hops. Yeast was hydrated via instructions on packet. 1/3 cup water boiled, let cool to around 100F, added yeast, and let sit for 15 mins. Stir and added to keg.

Bottled this on 2/08/09. Trub bottle was cracked on 2/23/09. It was dominated by the hop flavor, and very much a beery cider. After a few weeks of conditioning the hops are mellowing out. It is a nice change up from a sweeter Woodchuck style cider.

*notes* Used a beer yeast instead of a cider yeast due to temperature control problems. Cider yeast would probably create a sweeter, less beery cider. At the same time this recipe is more than likely not going to be sweet in the first place. Would be interesting to recreate with a force carb setup and back-sweeten.

#4 House Wheat

This was brewed on 1/21/09. This recipe was created with a blue moon type beer in mind. This was the first time dried malt extract was used at Bonesaw.

Recipe
1 Whispering Wheat HME
1lb Munton's Wheat DME
1 Grated Orange Rind
1/2 Cup Honey
Munton's Yeast

Water was brought to a boil and honey was added. The DME was added and the water was kept rolling for 5 mins around 150-160F. The wort was then removed from heat and the Whispering Wheat was added. The yeast was hydrated per instructions on yeast packet.

This was bottled on 2/08/09. The trub bottle was cracked on 2/23/09. It was delicious, very drinkable. It was a struggle to not consume this beer before it had conditioned fully. This beer will be a regular at Bonesaw.

#3 Bonechiller

This was essentially an everything but the kitchen sink brew. I had several cans of WCPA and wanted to make a brew. This is supposed to be around 7.4% by volume. Huge.

Recipe
2 West Coast Pale Ale
1 Booster Pack
1 Cup honey
1/2 Cup brown sugar
2 yeast packets (mr beer yeast)

Heated the water to a boil, while heating added the booster. Honey and brown sugar was added at boil. Removed from heat and added WCPA last.

This was bottled on 2/01/09. The trub bottle was cracked at 2/14/09 and it was not ready. It needs a lot of conditioning time. Tested again on 3/09/09. A little cidery, hopefully that clears with more time. Another 3-4 weeks before trying again. Popped another bottle on 4/21/09. This beer still has a very slight cidery taste in my mouth, but it is overall very good. I would call this beer a success.

*notes* Had troubles keeping a constant temp during fermentation, may have ruined the beer. If so, not a big loss.

#2 Full Moon Marzen

This was brewed on 1/05/09. The recipe was a more advanced recipe off the Mr Beer website. This was the first beer brewed in Bonesaw's facilities.

Recipe
1 High Country Canadian Draft
1 Golden Wheat UME
.5 oz Argentine Cascade Hops
2 cups honey
1 grated orange rind

Water brought to a boil and added the honey and orange. Removed from heat and added the malts and hops. Hops left in fermenter.

This was bottled on 2/01/09. The trub bottle was cracked on 2/14/09 and it showed promise. After 3 weeks of conditioning this is a delicious beer. Its kind of like a slightly hoppy wheat beer with some kick.